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The Gracenote Web API delivers a rich set of video metadata to help power interactive experiences for any connected application. It allows TV provider, channel, and program lookups, as well as text-based lookups of movies and television series.

This User ID should be stored and re-used for all subsequent calls to the Web API from the same application instance - if your queries are coming from a single host, you should only need a single User ID.

Channel Provider Lookup

A first step may be to find the Gracenote identifiers for all of the providers in your region. Here we lookup the providers for Davis Square in Boston.

TV Grid Lookup

Use the TVGRID_LOOKUP to find the programs that are airing for a specified set of channels and duration of time. Here we look up the programs that are airing on two over-the-air stations in Boston between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM. (Note that the times here are in GMT.)

Basic Text Search

If you want to find out more information about a specific program or movie, you can look at the Video Explore Web API docs. This example shows a basic text search using a movie title to find the associated metadata.

Language Settings

To change the language of all API responses (for available languages), use the <LANG> element with any API call with a 3 letter ISO 639-2 language code (e.g. 'eng' for English, and 'jpn' for Japanese). For example, to search for "The Big Lebowski" in German: